Your favourite shotgun...... ?

[MAH]

I do love my Remington 1100.
I recently bought a spare barrel and attached a moderator.
Really quite with Hushpower cartridges .
M

 

[Sika98k]

C.G Bonehill 16 bore. The one with the POW grip.

 

[enfieldspares]

This. my late father's, bought as a gift for him on his twelfth birthday in 1919. Henry Clarke of Leicester (where it was bought from) 12 bore boxlock ejector.



But other than that some of the favourite shotguns I've owned or still do own are one or various of Browning Auto-5, Greener GP, AYA Yeoman Ejector, a Boss (been there scratched the itch sold it in December 2021 to be ahead of the invitable collapse in value caused by BASC's lead shot ban "welcoming"} and two French self-opening Robust 28E boxlock ejectors. Identical save one is 12 bore and the other 16 bore.

 

[saddler]

Browning Auto 5
I have more than one

I also have a fondness for the Rem 870 & the Ithaca 37, or for more "old" school - the Tula Toz66 hammer guns

 

[Pedro]

Well, I've got 5 shotguns in my cabinets. There's a Beretta Xtreme (brilliant semi), a Sabatti Alpen Eagle O/U 12 bore (great name, but it's just a substitute game gun. It's got side panels, so has delusions of grandeur), a Kestrel 12 bore SXS sidelock (got it from a pal cheap 'cos I'd never had a sidelock, but it's not got a lot of street cred) and an older Rizzini O/U 12 bore (given to me by someone giving up, boy that thing is heavy, came with two sets of barrels).

But there's only one gun I generally go to because it can do anything, looks fine on a game day, will shoot vermin, pigeons, duck and used it successfully on geese before I got the semi, never misses a beat, is steel proofed, will shoot everything bar 3.5" cartridges is TADA......my 12 bore O/U Beretta Silver Pigeon S. In a lot of ways, it's the Ford Mondeo of shotguns, but Beretta, it has to be said make solid, reliable, long-lasting shotguns. There's a reason they remain at the top of the tree for sales figures.

I should really slim down what I have, seeing some very rarely get an outing. But that silver Pigeon will stay. Hmmm, that would make more room for rifles.....

 

[Covert]

Any grade Browning B25 especially the LWT game with the roach belly stocks.
Remington 1100 and 870.
Probably most used and least valuable a 1970’s AYA Yeomen side by side with the raised rib. Became like an extra limb. Probably been carried as many miles as shots been fired through over the last 40years

 

[reiver]

Browning Auto 5
I have more than one
I love my old 12 bore Auto 5 as well just wish I had a sweet 16 .

 

[Overlay]

i’ve got the original browning A5 and recently acquired the new version just such a good all round shotgun new and old versions

 

[Smellydog]

All of them and no topsy turvy barreled ones

 

[Andyquadra]

Browning B25 B2G 32" narrow rib game
Had it over 20 years and will never sell it

 

[Triggermortis]

1886 F.T Baker 20g hammerless ejector

 

[NOTSHARP]

Langley and Lewis BLE 20 bore.









Steve.

 

[Dunwaters]

This one, I’ve had it for a long time and have no plans to get rid of it just yet. Its an old Reno 12G, not an “English best” but not a cheap Spanish knock off either.

 

[lochty]

My 1885 Holland and Holland royal 16g.

 

[old keeper]

Miroku MK60, a brilliant gun, Benelli 28 Crio, the lightest gun I've ever owned.
And back in the 60s, a Luigi Franchi auto, not sure of the model but it killed a great number of foxes till some barsteward broke in and stole it!

 

[Ratel]

What other shotgun could I ever want. Only the number 1 to my number 2 Reilly sidelock.

 

[enfieldspares]

Browning Auto 5
I have more than one
I love my old 12 bore Auto 5 as well just wish I had a sweet 16 .

Ah! I had a 16, on s1 after 1988, for "flocking birds". But regrettably they never had the speedload feature that the Auto-5 acquired in the early 1950s. So I let it go.

 

[Stalker-of-the-deer]

For me it's my beretta 686. Nothing overly special about it, the wood work is alot nicer than others. But my late farther brought it for my 18th birthday. He then got the silver oval engraved on it for my 21st a few moths before he died.

For shootability it has to go to my browing 425 elite 28 bore with pow grip, its the sweetest little handling gun I have ever shot.

 

[deerstalker.308]

Either of these two, woodcock = AYA #4 28bore
Grouse = Holland & Holland Northwood BLE from the 1970’s.

 

[Dunwaters]

Seeing some of the lovely old guns on this thread is making me look forward to a total ban on lead ammunition so that they come down in price sufficiently for me to own one.
I’m a very bad person.